When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Sunday, September 30, 2007

The Hamburger Bahnhof exhibition venue in Berlin on an opening night.1882 (+) Physicist Johannes Hans Geiger is born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany.1888 (x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper sends a postcard to the Central News Agency in London, United Kingdom.1888 (-) Elisabeth Stride-Gustaafsdochter aka Long Liz, is killed by throatcutting as fourth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Berner Street, United Kingdom.1888 (-) Catherine Eddowes is killed by throatcutting and severly mutilated as fifth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Mitre Square, United Kingdom.1902 (x) Inauguration of the Pentonville Prison scaffold, to be the ‘finest scaffold in the world’ according to British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint in London, United Kingdom.1909 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Ernst Ehrenberg is born in Hannover, Germany.1923 (-) Richard Gräf is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1924 (+) Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1931 (+) Actress Angie Dickinson originally Angeline Brown, is born in Kulm, North Dakota, USA.1932 (-) Serial Killer Jesse Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, dies at the age of 72 in Boston, Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Massachussets, USA.1935 (+) Musician Johnny Mathis is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1947 (+) Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.1955 (-) Actor James Dean aka Rebel Without A Cause, dies in a head-on car crash with his Porsche Spyder at the age of 24 in Paso Robles, California, USA.1962 (-) Beauty Queen Hajna De Kaplany dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with nitric acid at the age of 25 in San Francisco, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, California, USA.1966 (x) Nazi-architect Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi in Berlin, Germany.1978 (-) Mary Vincent is raped, killed and hacked to bits by Larry Singleton at the age of 15 in Berkeley, California, USA.1984 (-) Chanel Williams is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, at the age of 18 in Tampa, the Strip, Florida, USA.1985 (-) Actress Simone Signoret originally Henriette Charlotte Kaminker, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France.1985 (-) Seismologist Charles Richter dies at the age of 85 in California, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Johnny Cocrum is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

The shack next to the railroad track from where the infamous Carl Cryplant floods the world with haunting sound tracks and intrusive podcasts.1547 (+) Writer Miguel de Cervantes is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.1571 (+) Artist Michelangelo Caravaggio is born in Milan, Italy.1758 (+) Admiral Horatio Nelson is born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.1854 (-) Annie Palmer-Brooks is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.1890 (-) Olympe Buisson is killed as first victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 9 in France.1895 (-) Pierre Massot-Pelet is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 15 in France.1902 (-) Writer Emile Zola dies of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide fumes at the age of 62 in Paris, France.1912 (+) Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni is born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.1912 (+) Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, is born in Berlin, Germany.1913 (-) Scientist and engineer Rudolf Diesel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 55 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1920 (+) Actor Peter Arne originally Peter Arne Albrecht, is born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.1922 (-) Murderer William Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1929 (-) Ida Reuter is bludgeoned to death and raped by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 40 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1931 (+) Actress Anita Ekberg is born in Malmo, Sweden.1935 (+) Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA.1939 (x) Poland capitulates to Nazi-Germany .1941 (+) Serial Killer Frederick West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, is born in Much Marcle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.1943 (+) Union leader and first free-elected president of Poland Lech Walesa is born in Poland.1957 (x) 250 Die in train collision in Montgomery, Pakistan.1961 (x) 35-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1967 (+) Fifteenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeremiah Weinberger is born in Puerto Rico.1969 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for ‘going equipped for theft’, carrying a hammer in Bradford, Mannington Area, United Kingdom.1969 (-) Michael De Gruchy is battered to death by The Geoffrey Hammond Gang at the age of 29 in Wimbledon, United Kingdom.1970 (x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, robs three banks of over 200.000 German Marks at the same time in Berlin, Germany.1974 (-) Ann Dawson is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.1974 (-) Donna Braun is presumably strangled as forty-sixth victim by Zodiac at the age of 14 in Monterey, California, USA.1979 (-) Ex-dictator Francisco Nguema is executed in Equatorial Guinea.1997 (-) Artist Roy Lichtenstein dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Ein super 44 angebot aber leider ist der Factor 44 zum ende....551bc (+) Philosopher Confucius aka Master Kung, is born in China.1850 (-) Murderer Reuben Dunbar is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in New York, New York, USA.1888 (x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper writes a letter “Dear Boss” to the Central News Agency in London, United Kingdom.1895 (-) Scientist Louis Pasteur dies of uremic poisoning at the age of 72 in Marnes-la Coquette, France.1898 (+) Nazi-doctor and mass-sterilizer Carl Clauberg is born in Wupperhof, Germany.1912 (x) Over 1000 Die in Kecher Maru shipwreck in Japan.1915 (+) American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is born in New York, New York, USA.1924 (+) Actor Marcello Mastroianni is born in Fotana Liri near Rome, Italy.1934 (+) Actress and animal-activist Brigitte Bardot originally Camille Javal, is born in Paris, France.1952 (+) Actress Sylvia Kristel aka Emmanuelle, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1954 (x) 137 Die in train derailment in Hyderabad, India.It drove off a viaduct.1959 (-) Dorothy Rawlinson is raped and murdered by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 29 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.1964 (x) Mass Murderer William Graulin kills his wife and his six children in Troy, Michigan, USA.1966 (-) Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.1967 (-) Murderer of Rasputin, Prince FelixJoessoppov dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.1970 (-) President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of heart-attack at the age of 52 in Caïro, Egypt.1978 (-) 263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, dies of myocardial infarction at the age of 65 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.He might have died from drinking poisoned coffee, only 33 days after his inauguration.1982 (-) Lutgarde Meeus is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 28 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.1989 (-) Dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos dies of kidney and liver ailments at the age of 72 in Honolulu, Hawaï, USA.1991 (-) Musician Miles Davis dies of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, USA.1992 (x) 167 Die in Pakistan Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Kathmandu, Nepal.1993 (-) Murderer Antonio Bonham is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1994 (x) 852 Die in Sweden-Estland MS Estonia Ferry capsizing in the Baltic Sea.2003 (-) Filmmaker Elia Kazan originally Elias Kazanjoglou, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The pigkeeper early in the morning in his makeshift quarters where he survived 10 days, including sleeping on a chair.1590 (-) 228th Pope Urbanus VII originally Giovanni Battista Castagna, dies of malaria at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.He was the shortest reigning (13 days) Pope.1700 (-) 242nd Pope Innocentus XII originally Antonio Pignatelli, dies at the age of 85 in Rome, Italy.1854 (x) 300 Die in Arctic steamer shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.1913 (+) Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.1917 (-) Artist Edgar Degas dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.1920 (+) Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.1920 (+) General Carlo Della Chiese Prefect of Palermo, is born in Saluzzo, Italy.1922 (+) Filmmaker Arthur Penn is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1927 (-) Police constable George Gutteridge is shot dead and his eyes blown out by Frederick Browne and William Kennedy in Essex, United Kingdom.1938 (+) Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, is born in Ardning, Austria.1940 (-) Philiospher Walter Benjamin commits suicide by morphine poisoning at the age of 48 in Port Bou, Spain.A fierce critic of Nazism, he was on the run for the Gestapo.1942 (+) Musician Alvin Stardust originally Bernard William Jewry, is born in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.1944 (-) The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson originally Elisabeth Kennedy, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 54 in Oakland, California, USA.1952 (-) Karl Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.1965 (-) Actress Clara Bow aka The It Girl, dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1969 (-) Brian Hartnell is stabbed to death as fifth and sixth victims by Zodiac in Lake Berryessa, California, USA.1974 (x) 26-year-old Manson Family-member Susan Atkins aka Sadie, has a religious vision of Jesus in her cell and becomes a born-again christian in Frontera, California Institute for Women, California, USA.1975 (x) 3 FRAP and 2 ETA-members are executed by the firing-squad for the murders of 4 policemen in Spain.1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested in Berck, France.2000 (-) Murderer Rickey McGinn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Photographer Wang Wei's most smelly job at the Tattooed Pig installation of Wim Delvoye in 798 Factory, Dashanzi art district, Beijing.1181 (+) Founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi is born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy.1791 (+) Artist Théodore Géricault is born in Rouen, France.1849 (+) Physiologist Iwan Pawlow is born in Ryazan, Russia.1868 (-) Scientist August Möbius dies at the age of 77 in Leipzig, Germany.He died 10 years after discovering his famous 'Möbius Ring'.1888 (+) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.1889 (+) Philosopher Martin Heidegger is born in Meskirch, Germany.1897 (+) 261st Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is born in Brescia, Concesion, Italy.1898 (+) Composer George Gershwin is born in New York, New York, USA.1902 (-) Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss dies at the age of 73 in San Francisco, California, USA.1929 (-) Maria Rad is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 28 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1937 (-) Black musician Bessie Smith bleeds to death in the street after a car-accident because a white ambulance-driver refuses to take her to a hospital at the age of 43 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the USA.1945 (-) Composer Bela Bartok dies of leukemia at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.1945 (+) Musician Bryan Ferry is born in Washington, Sunderland, United Kingdom.1948 (+) Actress Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.1951 (+) Mass-murderer Ronald DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1954 (x) 1172 Die in Toya Mary ferry shipwreck in Tsjugaru Strait. 1970 (x) The Manson Family hide-out, Spahn Ranch, is burned to the ground, charring over 100.000 acres in Death Valley, California, USA.1970 (-) Donna Lass is presumably abducted and killed as 17th victim by Zodiac at the age of 25 in Stateline, Samara Hotel, Nevada, USA.1974 (x) Over 200 Die in USSR destroyer fire in the Black Sea.1980 (x) 12 die and 312 are wounded in a fascist bomb-attack in a beergarden during the Beer Festival in München, Germany.1983 (-) Musician Tino Rossi dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1983 (-) Mystery writer Muriel Davidson is murdered by Robert Thom in Santa Monica, California, USA.1988 (x) Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts Building, California, USA.1988 (-) Keison Sinthasomphone is drugged, and sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 13 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.He survived.1990 (-) Writer Alberto Moravia aka Il Conformista, is found dead in his bathroom at the age of 82 in Rome, Italy.1997 (x) 234 Die in Garuda Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Medan, Indonesia.2003 (-) Murderer Joseph Bates is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2003 (x) 234 Die in MV Joola Senegalese ferry capsizing in Gambia.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A Wim Delvoye pig with an Art Farm tattoo of Lenin on its buttock. This was the offence to shut down an exhibition of live tattooed pigs at 798 factory in Dashanzi Art District in Beijing.1534 (-) 219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.Just a few days before his death he ordered Michelangelo to paint "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel.1832 (+) Architect William Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper, is born in Fairhaven, Massachussets, USA.1897 (+) Writer William Faulkner is born in New Albany, Mississippi, USA.1902 (-) Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit is lynched by a large crowd of catholics in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1903 (+) Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, is born in Dvinsk-Daugavpilz, Latvia.1906 (+) Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is born in Leningrad, Russia.1918 (-) Friedel Rothe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1932 (+) Composer Glenn Gould is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1944 (+) Actor Michael Douglas is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.1951 (-) Murderer Steve Mitchell is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1952 (+) Serial Killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is born in Middlesex, Park Royal Hospital, United Kingdom.1952 (+) Actor Christopher Reeve aka Superman, is born in New York, New York, USA.1953 (-) Brady Murphy is shot dead by John Johnson at the age of 35 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.1970 (-) Jeffrey Konen is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 18 in Houston, Yorktown, Texas, USA.1977 (-) John Mowery is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaine, Illinois, USA.1978 (x) 150 Die in Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 Boeing 727-214 and Cessna 172 mid-air collision in San Diego, California, USA.The site of the crash is immediately swarmed with looters who rob the bodies of all their valuables.1979 (x) 20-year-old Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is sentenced to 20 years hard labour in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1982 (x) 43-year-old Mass Murderer George Banks kills 13 people in a shooting spree in Wilkes Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, USA.Among the victims were five of his own children.1983 (-) King Leopold III originally Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 81 in Brussels, St. Luc Hospital, Brabant, Belgium.1984 (x) 49-year-old Family leader Charles Manson is doused with paint thinner and set on fire by inmate Jan Holstrom in the hobby shop of the California Medical Facility in Vaccaville, California, USA.He suffered burns over 18% of his body, mostly his head and hands.1987 (x) Mass Murderer John Schnick shoots 7 members of his family to death in Elkland, Montana, USA.1991 (-) Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, dies of blood-cancer at the age of 77 in Lyon, France.1991 (-) Murderer Warren McCleskey is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1997 (-) Double Murderer Benjamin Stone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Robert Buell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Calvin King is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, September 24, 2007

An army of DDVs in a mirrored art installation at 798 art factory in Dashanzi, Beijing.1541 (-) Alchelmist Paracelsus originally Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, dies at the age of 48 in Salzburg, Austria.1896 (+) Writer Francis Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.1912 (-) Murderer Chester Jordan is executed by Old Sparky in Massachussets, USA.1923 (-) Paul Bronichewski is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.1936 (+) Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson is born in Greenville, Missouri, USA.1974 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.1980 (-) Upaehya Bandara is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 34 in Leeds, United Kingdom.She survived1990 (-) David Thomas is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 23 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.1993 (-) Nazi Punk Rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in United Kingdom.There are rumours that State Security had sabotaged his car.1995 (-) Spree Killer Eric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 16 in Sollies-Pont, France.He first killed his mother, stepfather and brother with a hammer. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot 7 people with a .22 rifle.1999 (-) Double murderer Harvey Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Double murderer Rex Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Writer Françoise Sagan originally Françoise Quoirez, dies of heart-failure at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Normandy, France.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

The shop in the small village of Yangzhen, 60kms northeast of Beijing, where I lived for three months.1869 (+) Cook and healthy Typhoid Fever carrier Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary, is born in New York, USA.1875 (x) Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is arrested for the first time in Silver City, USA.1907 (+) Nazi leader Herbert Kappler is born in Stuttgart, Germany.1916 (+) Politician Aldo Moro is born in Maglie, Italy.1920 (+) Actor Mickey Rooney originally Joe Yule, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1930 (+) Musician Ray Charles originally Robinson aka Brother Ray, is born in Albany, Georgia, USA.1935 (-) Edward Andrassy and an unidentified man are found as first and second victim by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland at the age of 28 in Cleveland, Kingsbury Run, East 49th Street, Ohio, USA.1938 (+) Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, is born in Germany.1938 (-) Serial Killer Joe Ball aka The Alligator Man aka the Butcher of Elmendorf aka the Bluebeard of South Texas, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.He used to feed his victims to his pet-alligators.1939 (-) Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud originally Sigismund Schlomo Freud, dies of cancer at the age of 83 in London, United Kingdom.1943 (+) Musician Julio Iglesias is born in Madrid, Spain.1949 (+) Musician Bruce Springsteen aka The Boss, is born in Freehold, New Jersey, USA.1958 (+) Mass-murderer Harry De La Roche jr. is born in Montvale, New Jersey, USA.1968 (-) Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, dies at the age of 81 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.1970 (-) Actor André Bourvil originally Robert Raimbourg, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in Paris, France.1971 (x) 21-year-old Mario Roymans aka Tijl Van Limburg, steals Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Loveletter’ and claims a ransom to give to Bengal Refugees in Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brabant, Belgium.1973 (-) Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, dies at the age of 69 in Santiago de Chile, Chili.1976 (x) Start of the second trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in New Jersey, USA.1982 (-) Leon Guichard is raped by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 20 in Venaray-les-Laumes, France.1985 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, is sentenced to life without parole for 25 years in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.1987 (-) Filmmaker Bob Fosse dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1994 (-) Writer Robert Bloch aka Psycho, dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1997 (-) Magali Sirotti is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, at the age of 19 in Paris, France.1997 (-) Murderer Jessel Turner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Kenneth Stewart is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.1998 (-) Murderer David Castillo is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Traffic as seen from an overpass in Beijing.1515 (+) Fourth wife of Henry VIII Anne of Cleves is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1692 (x) Mary Esty, Martha Cory, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd, and Margaret Scott are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.1774 (-) 249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.1776 (-) America’s first spy Nathan Hale is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manhattan, New York, USA.1791 (+) Physicist Michael Faraday is born in London, Surrey, United Kingdom.1885 (+) Actor and filmmaker Erich von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, is born in Vienna, Austria.1903 (+) Chief informer against the Cosa Nostra Joseph Valachi is born in New York, New York, USA.1903 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Koch is born in Hannover, Germany.1906 (+) KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is born in Dresden, Germany.1924 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 and 6 months imprisonment for larceny in London, United Kingdom.1927 (-) Composer Giannotto Bastianelli commits suicide at the age of 44 in Tunis, Tunisia.1934 (x) 265 Die in coal-mine explosion in Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom.1939 (-) Murderer Frank Connor is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1948 (x) 135 Die in chemical warehouse explosion in Hong Kong.1949 (x) 44-year-old Murderer Nathan Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, has his life sentence commuted to 85 years in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1960 (+) Musician Joan Jett is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1975 (x) 62-year-old 38th president of the USA Gerald Ford is attacked by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, California, USA.1984 (x) 55-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of Michelle Steel in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.1989 (-) Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, dies at the age of 101 in New York, New York, USA.1992 (-) Triple Murderer James Demouchette is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1995 (-) Double murderer Philip Ingle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.1998 (-) Lanett White is found murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 25 in Lodi, California, USA.

Friday, September 21, 2007

"The Further Adventures of Pete The Tramp", a 1940s stag movie as brought to us by film buff Jack Stevenson at the filmmuseum in Antwerpen.1832 (-) Writer Walter Scott dies of anemia at the age of 61 in Abbotsford, United Kingdom.As a result his brain shriveled up.1860 (-) Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer dies of heart failure at the age of 72 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.1866 (+) Writer Herbert George Wells is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.1921 (-) Wolfchild Amala dies of a kidney infection at the age of 3 in Midnapore, India.1921 (x) Over 600 Die in ammonium nitrate explosion in Oppau, BASF plant, Germany.1931 (+) Actor Larry Hagman aka JR, is born in Weatherford, Texas, USA.1934 (+) Musician Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.1947 (+) Mass-murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1947 (+) Writer Stephen King is born in Portland, New Mexico, USA.1952 (+) Terrorist Pierre Carette is born in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.1956 (x) 121 Die in train collision in Secunderbad, India.1962 (x) 27-year-old Terrorist Ulrike Meinhof gives birth to twins Regine and Bettina by Cesarian after 6 months of pregnancy in Hamburg, Frauenklinik, Germany.She had to give birth early due to complications of a brain tumour, four weeks later she would be operated.1974 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, in Sequin, Nevada, USA.1975 (-) André Breugnot is drugged and drowned in a bathtub by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 56 in Chiang Mai, Chiang Inn Hotel, Room 207, Thailand.1982 (-) Irina Karabelnikowa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Schachnaja-Kirpitschnaja, Russia.1999 (-) Murderer Richard Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Murderer Andrew Flores is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

A publicity sign in the "Pont Marie" subway station in Paris.1519 (x) 39-year-old Explorer Ferdinand Magellansets sail in the first attempt to circumnavigate the earth in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Andalusia, Spain.1822 (+) Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhoferis born in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.1853 (+) 5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.1859 (+) Writer Cyriel Buysseis born in Nevele, Belgium.1863 (-) Philologist and folklorist Jakob Grimmdies at the age of 78 in Berlin, Germany.1913 (x) The first stone for 52-year-old Philosopher Rudolf Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy his Goetheaneum is laid in Dornach, Germany.1916 (+) Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf-August Oetkeris born in Bielefeld, Germany.1918 (x) 31-year-old Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, has his first occurence of stigmata while kneeling before a cross in the Chuch of the Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy.This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until his death in 1968.1924 (x) Germany decides to change its official writing from Gothic to Latin. .1925 (+) 8th King of Thailand Rama VIII originally Ananda Mahidol aka Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra, is born in Heidelberg, Germany.1929 (+) Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, is born in Vienna, Austria.1932 (x) 63-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Ghandi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, starts hungerstriking in prison in Poona, India.1933 (-) Theosophist Annie Besantdies at the age of 86 in Adyar, Tamil Hadu, India.1933 (-) Assassin of SA-Leader Horst WesselAlbrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando at the age of 35 in Berlin, Germany.1934 (+) Actress Sophia Loren originally Sophia Scicoloni, is born in Rome, Italy.1940 (x) The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Schmitt in Breendonk, Belgium.1940 (-) Frau Lausche is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Karlshorst, Germany.She survived.1942 (+) Filmmaker Robbe De Hertis born in Farnborough, United Kingdom.1945 (-) Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, commits suicide by drug-overdose at the age of 61 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA.1945 (-) Chief Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirthscommits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Staumühle, Germany.1946 (x) The first Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France.1947 (x) 22-year-old Timothy Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, marries Beryl Suzanna Thornley in London, Kensington Registry Office, United Kingdom.1948 (-) Ravensbrück KZ guard Emma Zimmer originally Mezel, is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Hameln, Germany.She was known for her extreme sadistic behaviour.1951 (x) Rhesus monkey Yorick aka Albert VI, and 11 are recovered from an Aerobee missile flight in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA.He was the first animal to survive a space flight, but died 2 hours later.1954 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Mainz, Germany.1957 (-) Composer Jean Sibeliusdies at the age of 91 in Jarvenpaa, Lappi, Finland.1959 (+) Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, is born in Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium.1959 (x) 43-year-old Writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin makes his first cut-upin Paris, Beat Hotel, France.1959 (x) 19-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, starts his travel to Russia when boarding the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans, USA.He first arrived in Le Havre, from there to London, then Helsinki where he got a 6-day-visa for the Soviet Union.1959 (x) 43-year-old Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, breaks down on stage with internal bleedings in New York, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, USA.1961 (+) Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass Sharon Lopatkais born in Hampstead, Maryland, USA.1964 (+) Wong Kar-Wai star actress Maggie Cheungis born in Hong Kong.1965 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for burglary in Maitland, Missouri, USA.1966 (x) The US Surveyor 2 spacecraft is launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.Two days later it crashed onto the Moon surface near Copernicus Crater.1967 (x) Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, shoots his film "16/67:20. September" aka "the legendary eating, drinking, pissing, shitting film" with Viennese Actionist Günter Brus in Vienna, Austria.1972 (x) 30-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, has his death-sentence voided by the Supreme Court in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1972 (x) 37-year-old RAF Leader Ulrike Meinhofis transferred from Ossendorf Prison to Zweibrücken Prison to take part in an identification line-up in Zweibrücken, Germany.Determined to ruin the process, she screams "Ich bin die Meinhof - mich sollt ihr identifizieren!" upon which the police instructs the 5 other women in the line-up to do the same.1973 (-) Musician Jim Crocedies in a plane crash at the age of 30 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.1974 (-) Kathy Schulz is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 15 in Dalbo, Minnesota, USA.1977 (x) Andrew Dupay, who delivered the mail to 24-year-old Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, commits suicide by blasting a shotgun through his head in Yonkers, Lincoln Terrace, New York, USA.He told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.1979 (x) 58-year-old Military Ruler Jean Bokassahis reign is overthrown in a military "Operation Barracuda" in Moyen-Congo.It was France's 'last colonial expedition'.1979 (-) 8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svobodadies at the age of 83 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.1989 (-) Murderer James Paster aka Skip, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1994 (-) Double Murderer George Lott aka The Fort Worth Courthouse Gunman, is executed by lethal injection after a last meal of french toast with syrup in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, dies of leukemia at the age of 67 in Münster University Hospital, Germany.2000 (-) Cosmonaut Gherman Titovdies of a heart-attack at the age of 65 in Moscow, USSR.He was the second person to orbit the earth.2005 (x) An inquest in the death of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner told that he had deliberately handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of reach in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.He had disappeared two years earlier and his skeleton was found in april.2005 (-) Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthaldies at the age of 96 in Vienna, Austria.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

A lonesome chicken and a huge load of corn at the bonecutter's house in Yangzhen.1805 (-) Murderer Charles Cunningham is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in York, Pennsylvania, USA.1869 (x) Hortense Kinck and her 5 children are strangled and beaten to death by 20-year-old Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann in Paris, France.1881 (-) 20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield dies of wounds suffered in an attack by Charles Guiteau 3 months earlier at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.1891 (+) Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz is born in Grünau, Germany.1902 (x) 115 Die in a stampede after a presumed church fire in Birmingham, Alaska, USA.1911 (+) Writer Sir William Golding aka Lord of the Flies, is born in Cornwall, United Kingdom.1933 (+) Actor David McCallum is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1934 (x) 34-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr in New York, The Bronx, 222nd Street, New York, USA.1934 (+) Beatles manager Brian Epstein is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1941 (+) Musician Cass Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.1948 (+) Actor Jeremy Irons is born in Cowes, United Kingdom.1949 (+) Model Leslie Hornby aka Twiggy, is born in London, United Kingdom.1976 (x) 154 Die in Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 crash in Karatepe mountains, Turkey.1977 (x) 14-year-old Serial Killer Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is married in Blountstown, Florida, USA.1978 (-) Polish priest Rolf Gunther commits suicide by self-immolation in Falkenstein’s church, Germany.1981 (x) Over 300 Die in Sobral Santos capsizing in the Amazone River, Brazil.1986 (-) Murderer John Rook is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.1987 (-) Debbie Davis is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1989 (x) 170 Die in UTA Flight 772 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 crash in the Sahara.The crash was due to a terrorist bomb explosion by a rebel Jihad group.1995 (-) Murderer Carl Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Murderer William Davis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The wedding of dj Orange in Zaal Boerenhof somewhere near Ghent. The sister of the bride wore a sexy plaster cast.1765 (+) 254th Pope Gregorius XVI originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro, is born in Belluno, Italy.1906 (+) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.1931 (-) Hitler’s niece and supposed secret lover Geli Raubal commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in München, Prinzregentenplatz, Germany.She used Hitler’s personal Walther 7.65 revolver.1932 (-) Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping off "HollywoodLand’"Mount Lee at the age of 24 in Hollywood, California, USA.1933 (+) Actor Robert Blake originally Michael Gubitosi, is born in Nutley, New Jersey, USA.1943 (x) 60-year-old Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, calls out th Fascist Republic in Salo, Italy.1952 (+) Punk Rocker Dee Dee Ramone originally Douglas Glenn Colvin, is born in Vancouver, Canada.1953 (-) Murderess Louisa Merrifield is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1961 (-) Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, Rhodesia.1965 (x) Murderer Palle Sörensen kills 4 cops in Roskilde, Denmark.1968 (+) Murderer Charles Thacker is born in Texas, USA.1970 (-) Musician Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.1974 (-) Sally Versoi is abducted by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 18 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.She escaped.1974 (-) Emmet Johnson is shot through the head by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, in Ely, Nevada, USA.1975 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is found guilty of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, and sentenced to 30 to 80 years imprisonment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.1975 (x) 21-year-old Patty Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is arrested in San Francisco, California, USA.1981 (-) Malcolm Barlow is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 24 in London, United Kingdom.1985 (x) 60 members of the ATA tribe are poisoned by their leader “so they could see better the image of god” in Mindanao, the Fillipines.1996 (-) Multiple Murderer Raymond Stewart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.1996 (-) Murderer Joe Gonzales is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2001 (-) Murderer James Roy Knox is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Ron Shamburger is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Filmmaker Russel Meyer aka King of the Nudies, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

Monday, September 17, 2007

A set of small table and chairs stowed away at the children's ward of a hospital in Dendermonde.1895 (-) Murderer Isaac Edwards is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.1901 (+) Sailor Francis Chichester is born in Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom.1922 (+) President of Angola Agostinho Neto is born in Bengo, Angola.1923 (+) Musician Hank Williams is born in Georgiana, Alabama, USA.1925 (x) 18-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, is involved in a bus accident in Mexico City, Mexico.She is discovered with a metal pole protruding from her body and suffered a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, a fractured pelvis, 2 broken ribs, 11 fractures in her right leg and a dislocated and crushed right foot.1925 (-) Murderer Julius Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.1928 (+) Actor Roddy McDowall is born in London, United Kingdom.1929 (+) Formula One Racer Stirling Moss is born in the United Kingdom.1931 (+) Actress Anne Bancroft originally Anna Maria Italiano, is born in New York, New York, USA.1935 (+) Writer Ken Kesey is born in La Junta, Colorado, USA.1947 (-) Murderer Charles Jenkins is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1947 (-) Murderer Christopher Geraghty is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1949 (x) 120 Die in Noronic cruiser fire in Toronto, Canada.1956 (-) Marion Watt is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape, at the age of 45 in Burnside, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.Her 16-year-old daughter Vivienne and sister Margaret were also found dead.1967 (x) 40 Die in soccer riot during the game Kayseri-Sivas in Turkey.1968 (x) Fictional Artist John Fare has removed a thumb, 2 fingers, an eye, 8 toes, both testicles and some pieces of skin, which are all replaced by plastic substitutes in Toronto, Isaacs Gallery, Canada.1980 (-) Dictator Anastasio Somoza is shot dead in a grenade-attack in Asuncion, Paraguay.1985 (-) Fashion designer Laura Ashley originally Laura Mountney, dies from injuries suffered in falling off the stairs 10 days before at the age of 60 in Wales, United Kingdom.1995 (-) Philosopher Karl Popper dies at the age of 93 in London, United Kingdom.2002 (-) Murderer Jessie Patrick is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He was sentenced to death for the burglary and murder of an 80-year-old Dallas woman.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

"Dolfijntje" (small dolphin) is one of the four "Reuskens" (small giants) from Borgerhout dating from around 1712. On this day the original samples were taken out on for the annual street parade for the last time.1736 (-) Physicist Daniel Fahrenheit dies at the age of 50 in The Hague, the Netherlands.1887 (+) Artist Hans Arp is born in Strassburg, Germany.1921 (x) Over 100 Die in bomb-attack in New York, US Assay building, New York, USA.The attack is claimed by anarchists.1922 (-) Reverend Edward Hall and his 34-year-old lover Eleanor Millsis killed by throatcutting by persons unknown at the age of 41 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.Their love-letters are strewn about around the dead bodies.1924 (+) Actress Lauren Bacall originally Betty Joan Perske, is born in New York, New York, USA.1925 (+) Musician B. B. King aka The King of Blues, is born in Itta Bena, Missouri, USA.1927 (+) Actor Peter Falk aka Columbo, is born in New York, New York, USA.1935 (+) Artist Carl Andre is born in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.1956 (+) Magician David Copperfield originally David Seth Kotkin, is born in Metuchen, New Jersey, USA.1956 (+) Actor Mickey Rourke is born in Schenectady, New York, USA.1977 (-) Soprano Maria Callas originally Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou, dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Paris, France.1977 (-) Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, dies in a car crash at the age of 0 in London, United Kingdom.1979 (x) Killer Groupie Veronica ‘Ver Lyn’ Compton tries to strangle an unidentified girl in an attempt to make a cover-up for Serial Killer Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellingham, Shangri-La Motel, Washington, USA.1980 (-) Psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget dies at the age of 84 in Genève, Switzerland.1980 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the Regional Mental Health Center in Norfolk, Nebraska, USA.1987 (-) An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in St. Petersburg, Lembolowo station, Russia.1987 (-) Murderer Joseph Starvaggi is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1988 (x) 36-year-old Terrorist Pierre Carette starts hungerstriking in the prison of St. Gilles in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1992 (-) Double murderer Willie Leroy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 34 in Jarratt, Virginia, USA.1994 (-) Murderer Jesse Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

A room used as horse stables by the German Wehrmacht in the fortress of Oelegem.1254 (+) Explorer Marco Polo is born in Venice, Italy.1440 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is arrested in Nantes, France.1881 (+) Automobile designer Ettore Bugatti is born in Milan, Italy.1889 (+) 27th president of the USA William Howard Taft is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.1890 (+) Writer Agatha Christie is born in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.1894 (+) Filmmaker Jean Renoir is born in Paris, France.1919 (+) Cycling legend Fausto Coppi aka Il Campionissimo, is born in Italy.1933 (-) Axel Kjellberg is shot dead by Sigvard Thurnemann aka The Doctor, in Sweden.Kjellberg’s housekeeper is also shot dead, Thurnemann was assisted by Eric Hedstrom.1941 (-) Britain’s oldest bachelor Alfred Arnold dies at the age of 112 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1945 (-) Composer Anton Von Webern is shot dead by US-soldiers during curfew at the age of 61 in Vienna, Austria.1946 (+) Filmmaker Oliver Stone is born in New York, New York, USA.1974 (x) 71 die when hi-jackers blow up a Boeing 727 in the air in Phan Rang, Vietnam.1977 (-) Robert Gilroy is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1978 (-) Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Messerschmidt dies at the age of 80 in München, Germany.1987 (-) Stephen Tuomi is strangled and cut to pieces as second victim by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, Ambassador Hotel, Wisconsin, USA.1996 (-) Serial Killer and accomplice to Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Toole aka The Hand of Death, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 49 in Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.1997 (x) 43-year-old Mass Murderer Hastings Wise kills four co-workers at the R.E. Phelon Lawn Mower Company in Alken, South Carolina, USA.Afterwards he swallowed insecticide in a suicide attempt, but survived.1999 (-) 3rd Generation RAF member Horst Meyer shot dead by the police during his arrest at the age of 43 in Vienna, Austria.He was the last RAF member to die violently during the organisation's lifetime.2004 (-) Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2006 (-) Journalist Oriana Fallaci dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Florence, Italy.

Friday, September 14, 2007

A Club Moral performance with Tamil Blockbuster Hits & Mollywood Movie Clips at Plaza Real in Antwerpen.1523 (-) 218th Pope Adrianus VI originally Adriaan Lorenszoon Boeyens, dies at the age of 64 in Rome, Italy.1849 (+) Physiologist Ivan Pavlov is born in Ryazan, Russia.1898 (-) Inventor of the calculating machine William Burroughs I dies at the age of 43 in Citronelle, Alabama, USA.1901 (-) 25th president of the USA William McKinley dies of coldfire due to gunshot wounds suffered in an attack by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz 8 days earlier at the age of 58 in Buffalo, New York, USA.1927 (-) Choreographer Isadora Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, dies in a car crash at the age of 49 in Nice, France.Her long shawl got tangled in the wheel of the car she drove and she was strangled while driving into a collision.1932 (-) Assassin of the 13th President of France Paul Doumer, Paul Gorgoelov is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.1951 (+) IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, is born in Belfast, Ireland.1967 (-) War leader Marshall Abdel Amer commits suicide by poisoning at the age of 47 in Egypt.While imprisoned he was given the choice by high-renking officials between conviction and execution for treason of honourable death by suicide.1972 (-) Aiko Koo is strangled and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in San Francisco, California, USA.1974 (-) Gwen Burton is assaulted and raped with a hammer by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.1974 (-) Stefania Pettini is shot dead and mutilated as third and fourth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy.1975 (x) Rembrandt’s ‘Nightwatch’ is attacked by Arie Van Dijck with a knife in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.Van Dijck commits suicide 6 months later.1982 (-) President of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel dies in a bomb attack at the age of 34 in Achrafieh, Kataeb Headquarters, Lebanon.25 other people were also killed.1982 (-) Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly dies in a car crash at the age of 52 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.Her daughter Stephanie, who supposedly was driving the Rover P6, is injured.1998 (x) Start of the trial against 36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng in Santa Ana, California, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Willis Barnes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Family murderess Frances Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.She shot her 32-year-old husband Adrian, her 7-year-old son Alton and her 21-month-old daughter Farrah.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

A warning sign "Beware Children" in Zone City, Antwerpen.1321 (-) Poet Dante Alighieri originally Durente degli Alighieri, dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Italy.1475 (+) Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Italy.1739 (+) Statesman Grigori Potemkin is born in Smolensk, Russia.1874 (+) Composer Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria.1916 (+) Writer Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, Wales, United Kingdom.1931 (x) 22 die in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Orient Express by Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, on a viaduct in Torbagy, Hungary.1944 (+) Actress Jacqueline Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.1956 (+) IRA-member Martin Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, is born in Cappagh, Tyrone, Ireland.1966 (-) Ursula Rohling is killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 20 in Marl, Försterbusch Park, Germany.1971 (x) After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller orders 1000 State Troopers and National Guardsmen to storm Attica Prison in New York, New York, USA.Over 40 people including 11 hostage prison guards died.1974 (x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, start their third hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.It was announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Berlin.1975 (-) Liane Woessner is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 11 in Bruchsal, Germany.1984 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested and charged with theft in Rostow, Russia.At the trial, three weeks later, he is released due to lack of evidence.1984 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1986 (x) 250 Die in overloaded ferry shipwreck in Barisal, Bangladesh.1995 (-) Murderer Jimmie Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1996 (-) Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 25 in Las Vegas, University Medical Center, Nevada, USA.He had been shot four times in a drive-by shooting six days earlier.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

A village style restaurant serving excellent intestine dishes in Dashanzi, Beijing.1362 (-) 199th Pope Innocentus VI originally Etienne Aubert, dies in Avignon, France.1888 (+) Actor and musician Maurice Chevalier is born in Paris, France.1913 (+) Olympic legend Jesse Owens is born in Lawrence County, Alabama, USA.1921 (+) Writer Stanislaw Lem is born in Lwow, Poland.1943 (+) Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank Christiane Herreman is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1944 (+) Musician Barry White originally Barrence Eugene Carter aka The Walrus of Love, is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.1951 (+) Serial Killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, is born in Schenectady, New York, USA.He was originally named Paul, but 9 months later he was given up for adoption.1956 (+) Musician Leslie Cheung originally Cheung Fat Chung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother), is born in Kowloon, Hong Kong.1968 (-) Revolutionary teacher Ryszard Siwiec dies in hospital after setting himself on fire four days earlier at the age of 59 in Warsaw, Dziesieciolecia, Poland.It was a protest against the Soviet invasion in Czechoslowakia1973 (x) 27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Through the Night Softly" in Los Angeles, Main Street, California, USA.1977 (-) Nationalist Leader Steve Biko is tortured to death at the age of 30 in Pretoria, Soweto Prison, South Africa.1990 (-) Murderer Charles Walker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.1992 (-) Actor Anthony Perkins aka Norman Bates, dies of aids at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1994 (-) Army Veteran and Suicide Pilot Frank Corder commits suicide by an airplane crash at the age of 38 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.He had stolen the Cessna 150 a day earlier and intended to crash onto the White House, instead he crashed into South Lawn.2003 (-) Double murderer Henry Hunt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2003 (-) Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, dies of diabetes at the age of 71 in Nashville, Baptist Hospital, Tennessee, USA.2006 (-) Murderer Farley Matchett is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

A pair of electric plugs on the construction site under Antwerp Central Station.1816 (+) Optician Carl Zeiss is born in Weimar, Germany.1881 (+) Actress Asta Nielsen is born in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.1885 (+) Writer David Herbert Lawrence is born in Eastwood, United Kingdom.1903 (+) Social theorist Theodor Adorno is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.1935 (+) Cosmonaut Gherman Titov is born in Verhnee Zhilino, USSR.He became the second person to orbit the earth.1939 (x) Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war to Nazi Germany.1940 (+) Filmmaker Brian DePalma is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.1968 (x) 95 Die in Air France Caravelle crash in Nice, France.1969 (-) Mary Pickens is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 59 in the USA.Putt is arrested within hours.1971 (-) USSR-leader Nikita Krushchev dies of a heart-attack at the age of 77 in Moscow, Russia.1973 (-) President of Chile Salvador Allende commits suicide by a shot in the head during a military coup at the age of 65 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.He used an automatic AK-47 rifle which was given to him as a present by Fidel Castro.1974 (x) 72 Die in Eastern Airlines Flight 212 Douglas DC-9-31 crash in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.10 people survived.1978 (-) Dissident writer Georgi Markov dies after being jabbed in the leg with a poisonous umbrella by Bulgarian secret agents at the age of 49 in London, United Kingdom.1978 (-) Medical photographer Janet Parker dies of smallpox at the age of 40 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.She was accidently infected by a mislaid sample of the virus at the University Medical School, and the last person to die of smallpox.1981 (+) Mass Murderer Dylan Klebold aka The Columbine High School Killer, is born in Lakewood, Colorado, USA.1985 (-) Murderer Charles Rumbaugh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1987 (-) Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is shot dead by burglars at the age of 42 in Kingston, Jamaïca.1988 (-) Anna Steffen is found strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 28 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.1990 (x) Over 150 Die in overloaded ferry capsizing in Uttar Pradesh, India.2001 (-) 9/11 Terrorist Mohamed Atta crashes into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center with a hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 767-223ER at the age of 33 in New York, New York, USA.2001 (-) 9/11 Terrorist Yousef Marwan crashes into Tower 2 of the World Trade Center with a hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 Boeing 767-222 at the age of 23 in New York, New York, USA.2001 (-) 9/11 Terrorist Hani Hanjour crashes into the Pentagon with a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 Boeing 757-223 at the age of 29 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.2001 (-) 9/11 Terrorist Ziad Jarrah crashes with a hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 Boeing 757-222 at the age of 26 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA.He planned to crash into the White House.2006 (-) Writer and biographer of Adolf Hitler Joachim Fest dies at the age of 79 in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.

Monday, September 10, 2007

A parade of mule carts with bricks for the construction of our "Pigs New Quarters" at 798 district in Dashanzi, Beijing.1404 (+) Gilles De Rais is born in Champtoce, France.1487 (+) 221st Pope Julius III originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, is born in Rome, Italy.1585 (+) Composer Ercole Porta is born in Italy.1888 (x) 38-year-old Murderer John Pizer aka Leather Apron, is arrested in London, United Kingdom.He’s suspected of being Jack the Ripper.1890 (+) Writer Franz Werfel is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.1896 (-) Marie Mossier is murdered as tenth victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 19 in France.1897 (+) Writer and philosopher Georges Bataille is born in Billom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.1920 (-) Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, dies of accidently drinking mercury bichloride in a drunken mood at the age of 25 in Paris, Hotel Crillon, Place de la Concorde, France.1926 (-) Murderer Henry Jackson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in West Virginia, USA.1932 (-) Murderer Clay Fogelman is executed in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.1933 (+) Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is born in Hamburg, Germany.1936 (x) The dismembered body of an unidentified woman is found, she’s the sixth victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Kingsbury Run, East 37th Street, Ohio, USA.1939 (x) Canada declares war to Nazi Germany..1945 (+) Musician José Féliciano is born in Lares, Puerto Rico.1961 (x) 83 Die in President Airlines DC-6 crash in Shannon, Ireland.1971 (-) Actress Pier Angeli originally Anna Maria Pierangeli, commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates at the age of 39 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.She couldn’t bear the death of James Dean with whom she was romantically involved.1974 (x) Start of the trial considering the freeing of Andreas Baader against 39-year-old RAF Leader Ulrike Meinhof in Berlin, Germany.1976 (x) 176 Die in British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and Inex-Adria DC-9 collision in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.1977 (-) Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, France.He was the last man to be executed by the Guillotine in France.1979 (-) President of Angola Agostinho Neto dies of blood cancer at the age of 57 in Moscow, Russia.2002 (-) Double murderer Tony Walker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Double murderer Larry Hayes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

On a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Beijing. I was supposed to fly from Brussels to Beijing via Amsterdam but in Brussels the plane was late, then when everybody was seated one guy didn't want to fly and he left the plane, due to security reasons the pilot didn't want to fly before the guy's eventual luggage was taken off the plane, all our luggage was put on the tarmac and we had to go and identify each piece which was then loaded onto the plane again. In Amsterdam I just missed the flight to Beijing, which was supposedly no problem because I could get a flight two hours later to Singapore with an immediate connection to Beijing. While we were queuing into the plane there was a technical problem, which would take only a short while to fix but eventually KLM decided to switch planes and that took two hours. So I missed my flight in Singapore and had to stay overnight to take the first next day flight. What was supposed to be an 11-hour journey took me 44 hours instead.1087 (-) King of England William I aka The Conquerer, dies of peronitis at the age of 59 in Rouen, St Gervais convent, France.At the funeral the ulcer in his intestines broke open and the outrageous stench drove away all the guests.1543 (x) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is crowned at nine months old in Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.1828 (+) Writer Leonid Tolstoy is born in Yasna Polyana, Russia.1898 (-) Hannelore Heidemann is butchered by Ludwig Tessnow at the age of 7 in Lechtingen, Germany.1898 (-) Poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies at the age of 56 in Valvins, France.1901 (-) Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies of alcohol-paralysis at the age of 36 in Paris, France.1911 (+) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is born in Bavaria, Germany.1921 (-) Film-extra Virginia Rappe dies of peronitis due to a ruptured bladder after being violently raped, 4 days earlier, by filmmaker ‘Fatty’ Roscoe Conklin Arbuckle at the age of 30 in San Francisco, St. Francis Hotel, California, USA.1921 (-) Murderer Nichan Martin is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1924 (-) Philanderer and murderer Patrick Mahon is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1941 (+) Musician “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia, USA.1954 (x) Mass Murderer Robert Jordan shoots 4 fellow-workers because they laughed at his fear to serve with the army in Elisabeth City, North Carolina, USA.1961 (-) Murderer Hendryk Niemasz is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in the United Kingdom.1973 (-) Jerry Billings is attacked and raped with a hammer by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 13 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.1976 (-) Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 82 in Beijing, China.1979 (-) David Murillo is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 15 in La Mirada, California, USA.1981 (-) Psychoanalist Jacques Lacan dies at the age of 80 in Paris, France.1983 (-) Wilhelm Meyer is shot dead as eleventh and twelfth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 24 in Florence, Galluzo, Italy.1984 (-) Filmmaker and murderer Yilmaz Guney dies of stomach cancer at the age of 47 in Paris, France.1985 (x) 58 die in a poisonous rite, ordered by their leader Cult-leader Mangayon Botawag in the Fillipines.1987 (-) Industrialist Gerrit-Jan Heijn is kidnapped and shot dead by 45-year-old architect Ferdi Elsas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Elsas collected the ransom money and was arrested merely by accident because he kept spending the large notes in the same store over and over.1988 (x) CCC-member Pascal Vandegeerde starts hungerstriking in the prison of Vorst in Brussels, Brabant, USA.1997 (-) Triple Murderer James Davis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Delbert Teague is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Serial Killer John Wayne Glover aka The North Shore Granny Killer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 72 in Lithgow Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

A parade of elephants in Museumstraat in Antwerpen.701 (-) 84th Pope Sergius I dies in Rome, Italy.1157 (+) King of England Richard I aka Richard the Lioneart, is born in Oxford, Beaumont Palace, England.1727 (x) 78 children Die in barn fire in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England.They ware watching a puppet show.1841 (+) Assassin Charles Guiteau aka The Man Who Shot President Garfield, is born in Freeport, Illinois, USA.1841 (+) Composer Antonin Dvorak is born in Muhlhausen-Kralup, Czechoslowakia.1873 (+) Dramatist Alfred Jarry is born in Laval, France.1873 (+) Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Caserio is born in Motta Visconti, Italy.1888 (-) Annie Chapman aka Dark Annie, is stabbed to death, her throat cut, her body ripped open and her uterus removed from the abdomen by Jack the Ripper at the age of 47 in London, Spitalfields, 29 Hanbury Street, United Kingdom.1901 (+) Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd aka The Architect of Apartheid, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1915 (-) Black Mallie Wilson is lynched for accidently entering a white woman’s room in Dresden, Tennessee, USA.1925 (+) Actor Peter Sellers aka The Pink Panther, is born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom.1933 (-) Murderer Bryant Stone is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in North Carolina, USA.1934 (x) 134 Die in Morro Castle ocean liner fire in New Jersey, USA.1937 (-) Joseph Couffy is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, in Orleans, France.1940 (+) Teen Idol Frankie Avalon originally Francis Thomas Avallone, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1943 (x) Italy surrenders to the Allied Forces in WWII.1948 (x) A British De Havilland 08 Jet is the first aircraft to break the sound-barrier.1948 (x) 20-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is transferred to the maximum security prison in Sing Sing, New York, USA.1949 (-) Composer Richard Strauss dies at the age of 85 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.1956 (+) Musician Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget, is born in Leeds, United Kingdom.1963 (-) Evelyn Corbin is strangled and grossly exposed as eleventh victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 58 in Salem, 224 Lafayette Street, Massachussets, USA.1965 (-) Actress Dorothy Dandridge commits suicide by drug-overdose on Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant at the age of 42 in West Hollywood, California, USA.She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.1966 (x) The first episode of "Star Trek" - "The Man Trap" is aired in the USA.1974 (-) June Lynch is attacked by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.1979 (-) Actress Jean Seberg commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol at the age of 40 in in the back seat of her car in a Paris suburb, France.1985 (x) The ashes from victims who died in an airplane crash on 12 august are stolen from the crematorium by persons unknown in Gumma, Japan.1985 (-) Nadine Mauriot is shot dead and mutilated as fifteenth and sixteenth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 36 in Florence, Scopeti, Italy.Nadine’s left breast and pubis had been removed.1997 (x) Over 300 Die in La Belle Gonaidienne Ferry shipwreck in Montruis, Haïti.2003 (-) Actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl dies of cancer at the age of 101 in Pöcking, Germany.

Friday, September 7, 2007

The side of a public bus on Bukit Timah Road in Singapore.1251bc (+) Divine Hero Heracles is born in Thebes, Greece.A solar eclipse marked his birth day.1860 (x) 400 Die in Lady Elgin shipwreck in Lake Michigan, Michigan, USA.1894 (+) Muse of Salvador Dali Gala originally Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova, is born in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.1909 (+) Filmmaker Elia Kazan originally Elias Kazanjoglou, is born in Istanbul, Turkey.1909 (-) Aircraft Pioneer Eugene Lefebre is the first man to die in an engine-powered aircraft at the age of 31 in France.1911 (x) Writer Guillaume Apollinaire originally Wilhelm Appolinaris Albertus Kostrowitsky, is suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and put in jail in Paris, France.1923 (x) Foundation of the INTERnational POLice organization INTERPOL.1929 (x) 136 Die in Kuru steamer capsizing in Tampere, Finland.1930 (+) King of Belgium Boudewijn I originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, is born in Brussels, Kasteel Stuyvenbergh, Brabant, Belgium.1936 (+) Musician Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas, USA.1940 (x) Nazi Germany starts "The Blitz", a series of 57 consecutive nights of bombing in London, United Kingdom.1947 (+) Serial Killer Graham Young aka The St. Albans Poisoner, is born in London, United Kingdom.1949 (-) Rita Guay is killed in a plane explosion by Albert Guay in Quebec, Canada.22 others also died in the explosion, mastered by Guay, Marguerite Pitre and Generaux Ruest.1977 (-) Glenda Goff is shot through the head by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 18 in McLennan County, Texas, USA.1978 (-) The Who’s Drummer Keith Moon dies of an overdose of chlormethiazole edislylate at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.His flat at 12 Curzon Place was where Mama Cass died of a heart attack in 1974.1979 (x) 32-year-old Manson Family-member Tex Watson marries Kristin Joan Svege in the San Luis Obispo Prison chapel in Texas, USA.1984 (-) Vicky Elliott is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, at the age of 21 in Tampa, Florida, USA.1996 (x) 25-year-old Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac, is shot fwice in the chest, in the arm and the thigh in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane intersection, Nevada, USA.He dies of respiratory failure six days later.1997 (-) President Sese Seko Mobutu originally Joseph Desiré, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 66 in Rabat, Mohammed V military hospital, Morocco.2003 (-) Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio, dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.